Aujuittuq [ᐊᐅᔪᐃᑦᑐᖅ, also known as Grise Fiord] is Canada’s northernmost town, in Qikiqtani Region, Nunavut Territory. It is located at the southern tip of Ellesmere Island, which is about half the size of California, or about twice the size of Portugal. 800km further north from the little village is Canadian Forces Station Alert, the northernmost settlement in the world but inhabited only by a rotating population of military personnel and scientists. Aujuittuq is a real town in which people are born, live and die, and one of the coldest inhabited places on earth.
Image of the month: ᐊᐅᔪᐃᑦᑐᖅ (Aujuittuq) / Grise Fiord
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on July 1, 2018
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FILMS – JUNE 2018
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(Almodóvar 1983) What Have I Done to Deserve This? [¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto!!]
(Fiveson 1979) The Clonus Horror [Mystery Science Theatre version]
(Oswald 1964) The Outer Limits: Ep.22 ― Specimen: Unknown
(Hitchcock 1940) Foreign Correspondent
(Dante 2013) Trailers from Hell: Joe Dante on Earth vs. the Flying Saucers
(Sears 1956) Earth vs. the Flying Saucers
(Wilder 1956) Witness for the Prosecution
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First-time listening for June 2018
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29189. (Hector Berlioz) La Damnation de Faust [complete opera; d. Inbal; Gulyás, Lloyd,
.… . Ewing]
29190. (Dinah Washington) Dina Washington [Verve Jazz Masters #40]
29191. (Imagine Dragons) Night Visions Live
29192. (Lakshminarayana Shankar) Raga Aberi [w. Zakir Hussain]
29193. (Slam) BBC Essential Mix, May 1,1994
29194. (Namagiripettai Krishnan) Kalyana Melam
29195. (Hector Berlioz) Roméo et Juliette, Op.17 [d. Inbal; Denize, Cole, Lloyd]
29196. (Gilles Binchois) Files a marier [var. of 2872]
29197. (Gilles Binchois) Mon cuer chante joyeusement
29198. (Gilles Binchois) Joyeux penser
29199. (Gilles Binchois) Jamais Cant
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READING — JUNE 2018
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27457. (Antanas Sileika) Underground
27458. (Marc-Antonio Barblan) 1476 ― Le naufrage du grand Duché d’ Occident [article]
27459. (Hermione Hoby) A Story of Survival: New York’s Last Remaining Independent
. . . . . Bookshops [article]
27460. (Alex Preston) How Real Books Have Trumped EBooks [article]
27460. (Burjor Avari) India: The Ancient Past
27461. (Steven Muhlberger) Two Dukes of Bourbon, Factual and Legendary [draft]
27462. (Charlotte L. King, et al) A Multi-faceted Approach towards Interpreting Early Life
. . . . . Experience and Infant Feeding Practices in the Ancient Atacama Desert [article]
27463. (Adam Grydehøj) Hearing Voices: Colonialism, Outsider Perspectives, Island and
. . . . . Indigenous Issues, and Publishing Ethics [article]
27464. (Philip Róin & Mikkel Danielsen) How to Topple a Dictator: The Rebel Plot that Freed
. . . . . the Gambia [article]
27463. (James Blinkhorn) Buddha Pushkar Revisited: Technological Variability in Late
. . . . . Paleolithic Stone Tools at the Thar Desert Margin, India [article]
27464. (Cordwainer Smith) War No 81-Q {Original Version} [story]
27465. (Richmal Crompton) Just William
27466. (Benjamin Isakhan & Peter E. Mulherin) Basra’s Bid for Autonomy: Peaceful Progress
. . . . . toward a Decentralized Iraq [article]
27467. (Giovanni Pettinato) Ebla, A New Look at History
27468. (Norman F. Cantor) Antiquity
27469. (Joyce Marcus) Dynamic Cycles in Mesoamerica [article]
27470. (Ralph K. Pederson) Traditional Arabian Watercraft and the Ark of the Gilgamesh Epic:
. . . . . Interpretations and Realizations [article]
(Kim Echlin) Inanna ― A New English Version:
. . . . 27471. (Kim Echlin) Introduction [preface]
. . . . 27472. (Anon.) Inanna’s Stories and Hymns [tr. Echlin]
. . . . 27473. (Enḫeduanna) Praise Hymns [tr. Echlin]
. . . . 27474. (Anon.) Hymns of Self-Praise and Light [tr.Echlin]
. . . . 27475. (Anon.) Hymn to Iddin-Dagan [tr. Echlin]
27476. (Heike Drotbohm) Comment habiller la Vierge? Syncrétisme et anti-syncrétisme Haïtien
. . . . . à Montréal [article]
Image of the month: You can’t have too many freckles.
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FILMS – MAY 2018
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(Yeaworth 1958) The Blob
(Crossland 2010) Murdoch Mysteries: Ep.30 ― Rich Boy, Poor Boy
(Meza-León 2017) Rick and Morty: Ep.30 ― The ABC’s of Beth
(Dein 1960) The Leech Woman [Mystery Science Theatre version]
(May 1976) Mikey and Nicky
(Berke 1958) The Lost Missile
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First-time listening for May 2018
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29171. (Arthur Sullivan) Suite from the Incidental Music to The Merry Wives of Windsor
29172. (Afghan Whigs) Big Top Halloween
29173. (Gioacchino Rossini) Armida [complete opera; d. Serafin; Callas, Albanese, Filippeschi]
29174. (Sleater-Kinney) The Hot Rock
29175. (Arthur Sullivan [& W. S. Gilbert]) Trial By Jury [complete opera; D’Oyly Carte]
29176. (Dalibor Slepčík) “Kouzlo bílejch rán” [single]
29177. (Blodwyn Pig) Ahead Rings Out
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READING — MAY 2018
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27440. (Judea Pearl) Causality ― Models, Reasoning, and Inference [2nd ed.]
27441. (Chris Loendorf, David Jacobs & Glen E. Rice) Petroglyphs, Grinding Slicks, and
.… . Cupules of the Rock Island Comples: U:8:3e92/862 [article]
27442. (Steve Muhlberger) [in blog Muhlberger’s World History] When Does Anyone Ever
.… . Appologize Like This? [article]
27443. (Steve Muhlberger) [in blog Muhlberger’s World History] Ibn Batuta and the Empire of
.… . Mali in Extra History [article]
27444. (Franziska Dövener, Carola Oelschlägel & Hervé Bocherens) Kamele im westlichen
.… . Treverergebiet – ein nahezu vollständig erhaltenes Dromedar aus dem vicus Mamer–
.… . Bartringen, Luxemburg [article]
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Image of the Month: Canadian Women’s Army Corps posed photo of Mary Greyeyes and Harry Ball, 1942.
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This photograph hung for decades in the National War Museum in Ottawa with its subjects labeled “unidentified”, until Mary’s daughter-in-law learned of its existence in 1995. The photo was taken to encourage more women to join the army, and its staged “Indian blessing” proving popular, it was widely reprinted during the war, then forgotten.
Mary Greyeyes was from Muskeg Lake Cree Nation in Saskatchewan. This tiny community (only 367 people live on the reserve) has a remarkable military history. 56 of its youth served in the armed forces, including seven women, most of them named Greyeyes, Arcand or Lafond. Mary Greyeyes joined about the same time that my mother joined the Air Force. Muskeg Lake Cree have fought in Europe, Korea, and Afghanistan. Muskeg Lake is also the birthplace of the ballet dancer, choreographer and film actor Michael Greyeyes.
Mary returned to Canada after finishing her service in 1946, married, and made a career as an industrial seamstress in Vancouver. She died in 2011. The other participant in the staged photo was Harry Ball, a Cree from Piapot First Nation, who was a World War I veteran. His Plains Chief regalia was scrounged up on that reserve, where the photo was taken.
Photos of CWACS in action. Many were involved in dangerous work. They were not just clerk-typists and tea-brewers:
FILMS – APRIL 2018
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(Spielberg 1981) Raiders of the Lost Ark
(Wilder 1954) Killers from Space
(Trelfer 2017) Dark Corners Review: (38) Killers from Space
(Reitman 1984) Ghostbusters
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